And to me gif sounds stupid. It sounds like an unfinished word without much identity to it. Jif sounds much more defined, pronounced, and reminds me of the word 'Jiffy' which is often shortened to 'Jif'.

However I never cared that others pronounced it a different way and I will continue to pronounce it the way I learned to on my own because it feels right to me, and I've no wish to take that right-ness away from people with other pronunciations.

After all, what's in a name? It's what's -inside- the .gif that counts. And inside this one is a baby catching fire, and I think we can all agree that it is a good .gif.

Except that doesn't really work either as both pronunciations are spelled the same. This just falls into the same category as 'Best Pone' does. Every time you see people complaining that 'gif' is pronounced wrong it is the same as people complaining that Applejack is hotter than Rarity. It's just two sides meaninglessly arguing a moot point based on their own preferences with no real weight behind either side of the discussion.

I pronounce it my way, which is correct.

And you pronounce it your way, which is also correct.

If you say it should be pronounced how the words are pronounced then '.jpeg' becomes '.jpheg' because the 'p' stands for 'photo'. If you argue that it is pronounced how it's spelled then it works either way. If you argue that it should be pronounced your way because that's the way you're comfortable with then I argue that I want to produce it my way because that's the pronunciation 'I' feel comfortable with. Neither side has any real weight behind their argument besides them having the right to pronounce it however the hell they please.

I pronounce it 'jif' because 'jif' sounds like 'jiffy' which is a word I like and 'gif' sounds like the incomplete start of a word which feels wrong in my mouth.

Plus I learned to call it 'jif' because that's what I called it the first time I saw the extension and it's what I've called it ever since then. Apologies if I aggravate your allergies. Here is a nice .gif for you.

No, because there is no correct pronunciation for the word '.gif'. If you take into account the pronunciation of the letters in reference to the words they replace then APC becomes "apc" or even "arperca" because the letters aren't pronounced in their hard-letter mode like we normally pronounce singular letters. The same is true of the word 'laser' because the 's' word in the word laser isn't pronounced with a 'z'.

At the end of the day, the more you try to justify either pronunciation the more complicated you make it for both sides, hence why I choose the pronunciation that 'sounds' right to me and you choose the one that 'sounds' right to you, since technically neither of them are any more correct than the other.

What is more, this just falls into the same category as 'Best Pone' does. Every time you see people complaining that 'gif' is pronounced wrong it is the same as people complaining that Applejack is hotter than Rarity. It's just two sides meaninglessly arguing a moot point based on their own preferences with no real weight behind either side of the discussion.

So no, it's not making it more complicated, it's simplifying it to the most basic degree. "Pronounce it how you want to."

It's cool, bro. It's the internet. I'd not last long if **** worded as non-offensively as -THAT- got to me. The apology is welcomed though... I fear I've run out of fire and baby-stone .gifs so here is one of good old Hitler.

That's his point. If you're going to carry over the first pronunciation of the letters that make up the acronym then you should pronounce .jpeg, .jpheg

When we say acronyms we say the word that it makes up or pronounce it letter by letter. People using the hard G in graphics are just trying to rationalize a decision they've already made whether it's right or wrong.

Dunno. Both are equally valid, as "G" tends to use both when behind an "i". I like Jif better because, when saying Gif, it's harder to say and feels odd. Plus, it's similar to "Gift," as well as a coughing sound. Jif, if you ignore peanut butter, seems less likely to be confused. That's how I pronounced it the first time and got used to it.

You're gonna have to hold my hand, mate, I got a 52 on the verbal portion of my air force officer qualifying test. But I never heard people say out loud each letter of any of those acronyms. And laser is an acronym of "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"